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>[email protected] (Howard C. Berkowitz) writes: >>Is this another argument for SONET rings and against tree structuring? > >It is an argument for diversity. SONET rings offer diversity against >certain failure modes, but they too have other types of interesting >failures. SONET failures tend to be more complex, and so far seem to >take much, much longer to fix than a simple fiber cut. > >SONET rings have several good points. What is not good is thinking the >buzzword "SONET" as uttered by salespeople (and some engineers) means more >than it actually is. Automatic Protection Switches exist in the copper >world too. Phone companies have been selling APS systems for decades, they >still have trouble actually delivering on those promises. >-- >Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO > Affiliation given for identification not representation Apparently, the intended humor was too obscure...I was simply referring to the digging contractor, who was doing it to install trees -- of the wooden sort. No, that isn't a reference to Mr. Gore, the inventor of the Internet.
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